Word: rite
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Classic Assets. From language to costume to protocol, * as richly obscure as a Melanesian courtship rite, diplomacy is not really a natural enterprise. Today it is carried on by the U.S. in a world where friends can be more frustrating than foes, where, as far as U.S. aid is concerned, most nations assume that it is more blessed to receive than to give, where every step is shadowed and every misstep exploited by the Communists (who are probably the leading modern exponents of the 17th century notion that a diplomat is an "honorable...
Except for the scattered handful of Carthusian houses, all Latin-rite monasteries in the world follow-with varying degrees of severity-the rule of conduct that St. Benedict of Nursia wrote down in 529 for his community of cenobites at Monte Cassino in Italy. Although faithful to this spirit, U.S. monasteries have nonetheless made some striking adaptations of Benedictine life to suit American ways. More active and outgoing than their European counterparts, U.S. monasteries operate everything from mailorder cheese businesses to country missions to diocesan seminaries; each Sunday their monks say Mass in hundreds of U.S. churches. "The fundamental difference...
...topics the council should consider; the 2,150 replies (called postulata) have been compiled into a secret, 20-volume report from which the agenda will be drawn. Decisions on that agenda will be made, according to majority vote, by more than 2,000 cardinals, archbishops, bishops, abbots and Eastern Rite Patriarchs, assisted by 300 or so of the church's best theologians. All discussion will be in Latin, although, as a concession to the 20th century, speeches will be simultaneously translated into other, modern languages...
...Pope John's recent announcement that he prefers to see Latin remain as the church's principal liturgical language (TIME, Dec. 22), bishops from Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, France and mission countries want Rome to permit the use of the vernacular in the Mass. Patriarchs from Eastern Rite churches-many of which have liturgies that are heavily latinized-want to remove Western influence from the ceremonies used in worship. On behalf of their priests, Western bishops have asked for a breviary in the vernacular...
Hash & Cash. These sounds are the obbligato to that great rite of Christmastide, the buying and giving of gifts. The sounds began before the Thanksgiving turkey had flaked into hash, and last week they were swelling in the annual crescendo. Across the U.S., people were throwing money around as if it were going out of style. The nation's department stores, glittering with tinseled trees and holly wreaths, were braced for what promised to be the biggest Christmas sales in history. In Detroit, Hudson's added 5,500 extra employees to handle the crush and the cash...